KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen rebounded from her lone bogey with three back-nine birdies Thursday at wind-swept Ko Olina to take the second-round lead in the LPGA Lotte Championship.

The 32-year-old Norwegian, a 10-time LPGA Tour winner ranked sixth in the world, shot a 3-under 69 in her afternoon round to reach 10-under 134. She had consecutive victories late last season in South Korea and Taiwan and won a Ladies European Tour event last month in China.

Defending champion Ai Miyazato was a stroke back after a 68 in the morning session. The Japanese player, a nine-time winner on the LPGA Tour, had five birdies in a late six-hole stretch.

“It was definitely windier than yesterday, so it was pretty tough out there,” Miyazato said. “I grew up in the wind and I like to play in this wind. This morning when I get to the golf course I’m like, ‘Now I’m in Hawaii.’ Hawaii is always windy place and always fun to play this weather conditions.”

Pettersen got to 8 under with a birdie on the par-3 fourth, then dropped two strokes behind Miyazato with a bogey on the par-4 10th. The European Solheim Cup star rallied with birdies on the par-4 11th, par-5 13th and par-3 16th and closed with consecutive pars.

Spain’s Beatriz Recari, the Kia Classic winner last month, was three strokes back along with South Koreans Kim Hyo-joo and Seo Hee-kyung. Recari, paired with Pettersen, shot 70. She had a share of the lead with Miyazato at 9 under after birdies on Nos. 11 and 12, but bogeyed Nos. 13 and 16 to fall back.

Kim, the 17-year-old who played in a group with 17-year-old Ariya Jutanugarn and 15-year-old New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko, had a 71, and Seo shot 72.

Second-ranked Stacy Lewis was alone at 6 under after a 71.

“We were warming up at 6:30, 7 in the morning and the wind is howling,” Lewis said. “I mean, going into the day sitting on the range, you knew it was going to be hard. You just had to fight for every shot. You couldn’t really try to make too many birdies. You just had to kind of take some putts if they came and grind out a few pars. Anything under par today, I think, is a good score.”

The winner of consecutive events this year in Singapore and Phoenix, Lewis played the first two rounds with Miyazato.

“I think the best thing about her is she doesn’t let a bad shot get to her,” Lewis said. “She’ll make a bogey and be OK with that, because she knows she can make some birdies.”

Day and Leishman lurk

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina (AP) ― Jason Day and Marc Leishman kept the Australian flag flying high at the RBC Heritage.

Four days after countryman Adam Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters, Day and Leishman shot 4-under 67 and trailed leader Brian Davis by two shots Thursday after the first round at Harbour Town Golf Links.

Davis lost a playoff to Jim Furyk in 2010 at Harbour Town after calling a penalty on himself. This time, the Englishman birdied eight of his final 14 holes for a 65 to pull past Day and Leishman, who were back in contention after falling short Sunday at Augusta National.

Kevin Streelman and Charley Hoffman were a stroke behind Davis at 66, while Johnson Wagner also shot 67. U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson led a large group at 68.

Day and Leishman can’t make history for their country at the RBC Heritage ― only enhance it. Several Aussies have won at Harbour Town, including Graham Marsh in 1977 and Greg Norman 11 years later. Aaron Baddeley was the last Australian to take the champion’s tartan jacket in 2006.

“For a population that I think is around 23 million people in Australia, and the last time I checked the land size is a little bit bigger than North America,” Day says. “We do pretty well in sports.”

That’s been apparent on the PGA Tour in recent weeks.

Scott, Day and Leishman were all in hunt at Augusta National on the back nine until Scott, the most experienced of the Aussie trio, rose up at the end and beat Angel Cabrera in a playoff. Day finished third and Leishman tied for fourth, meaning all three are already qualified to return for the 2014 Masters.

There’s a lot of work ahead before then, Day said, especially with Davis playing Harbour Town as well as anyone in recent years.

Davis was toe-to-toe with Furyk three year ago until he brushed a loose reed with his club in the marsh area left of the 18th green. Davis immediately called the infraction, which essentially gave Furyk the crown.